Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
4 DEVASTATING CYCLONE
Towns Destroyed and Ruin III ''0
Wake Of q Cyclone-Fatal hA'
plosion, Etc., Etc.
AN OHIO CYCLONE.
cra.t Destruction Of Property and ffoo
.hle Loss of Life.

Great Destruction of Property and Froo
able Loss of Life.
ST. C~LA1nsv1LLE, o., April ia stor"
was felt at 3:15 this afternoon. IL up
peared to be travelling from the West ano
in the shape of a funnel-shaped mass o.
clouds resembling in appearance oenss
black smoke. The con wal
and could be plainly traced over III
track by the destruction it left. houses
were demolished, tree snapped on IKE plpe
stems. horses and cattle Frustrated ano
carried bodily hundreds of yards by the
gale and the sky was darkened with CLOUDS
IF hyinq debris. The storm and its ef1ects
showed all the distinguishing characters
tics
OF A WESTERN CYCLONE.
It first struck two brick houses belonging
to Colonel Paxton and Judge Cochran west
of town and q frame house belonging to a
man named Coleman. All three were com
nletelv demolished of the furniture and
portions of the roof, and walls scattered
along the track Of the cyclone clean to the
end of the town, a mile distant. A large
mansion on the corner OF Marietta ana
Main streets was cut od clean at the sec.
ond floor, and the walls and roof scattered
in fro oments. The First National Bank
block and {. Thrall & Sol's dry goods store
were almost
SWEPT FROM THEIR SITES,
only a portion of the lower walls being left
standing. The dwellings and business
block of I. H. Patterson, druggist; George
Jepson, grocer, and James Patterson, dry
---l. LoI klo:u ~,,a vol md rn0f oWQnf
off and the lower part of the houses badly
damaged by falling bricks and timbers.
The National Hotel, Mrs. Evans large
brick residence and probably forty other
houses were less seriously damaged. No
casualties to persons are reported, the
funpel-shaped cloud having been seen ap-
preaching in time for families to
FAKE REFUGE IN CELLARS.
Benjamin Barkhurst's fine old brick man.
sion was totally demolished, likewise the
United Presbyterian Church, a large brick
The loss in St. Clairsville will
reach 5000, OOO. The Western Union
wires and potts are down. Ho rises hitched
in the streets were blown about like chaff
and vehicles demolished. A scantling
sailed through the air and cut as clean a
hole in two walls of a brick house as a
cannon ball. Shingles we're driven through
weather boarding like arrows. James F.
Anderson, of Bellaire, had just hitched a
buggy in the street, when some n eshou1ed
the warning to him. He clutched a tele-
graph pole,
WHICH sNAPPED OFF
Just above his head. Hon. L. Danford was
in his Office when an entire chimney
through the ceiling and floor, leav-
ing him unharmed. At Barton's Station,
four miles north, a new brick house was
to the ground. At Pascoe, five
miles west of this CITY on the National
road, the brick house of A. Hinckle was
and he badly hurt. A large
of wood between here and St. Glars
vile has not a tree injured, while most
of them
ARE FLAT ON THE GRoUND.
The town of Bridgeport, just across the
river escaped, Is did Wheeling, but a fu-
neral was in the cemetery at the time and
trees and tombstones. swapping off
as they blew over them. Martins Ferry,
on the opposite side of the river. suffered
even more severely than st. Clairsville.
Here a broad valley gave direction to the
destroying gale which licked up the forest
md farm houses and scattered fences in it's
path down the hollow, widening out as it
the Little City and
SCATTERING DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE.
Glass Works had one brick building
blown down. The brick residence of j. H.
.rennon, editor of the News, was so badly
used up that not n brick was left On an
L. w. Bailey's fine concrete resi-
1ence was also leveled to tho ground
Henry Helling's eight houses, barns and
we're all destroyed. The town proper
Of Is to 100 houses, were more OF less
damaged, and the loss will reach $165, 900.
Grove, in Fins Park. has but few
Of the 800 trees standing. The City Gem
etery adjoining was similarly unfortunate.
James Reilly's house AS blown down, and
Mrs. Reilly was pulled unconscious from
the ruin
AND MAY DIE.
The storm struck the town at 4 in the
afternoon without warning and it is won
1erful that more injury to persons was not
lone. Besides Mrs Reilly one of the casu-
alties reported are Jas. Reilly, her husband
! saloon keeper, both legs broken. Mrs.
collar bone broken. Mark Davis,
atally injured. A German lady whose
lame could not be learned, is dangerously
INJURED. When the storm struck the river,
The water
SHOT UP IN A PERPENDICULAR WALL
bout twenty feet and then fell back a
seething foam, and simultaneously
l shower Of fence boards, shingles, posts
lud timbers with some large sections of
houses fell in a sheet on the turbulent
water. The river for miles is strewn with
s~reckage. Fairview school house, one
nile west, was totally wrecked and Miss
White, the teacher, b IDLY hurt. Several
are rendered homeless. Lafayette
Rink was engaged by the authorities as a
temporary shelter for the homeless, and a
Meeting of citizens is called for l p. m. to.
morrow to devise means of relief. Every
ew minutes news comes of additional
and it is safe to say the aggregate
oss will exceed a million of dollars.